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Welfare Quotes by James Madison
- With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them…
- To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and…
- It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the…
- I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to…
- If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very…
- It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,…
- Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever,…
- If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a…
More Welfare Quotes
- But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley
- God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best… — Ezra Taft Benson
- If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their… — Wendell Berry
- The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant
- Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship… — Benazir Bhutto
- I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare… — Jerry Brown
- In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible… — Harry Browne
- Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state… — Harry Browne
- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. — Edmund Burke
- Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. — Carol Burnett
- There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds. — Jeb Bush